Regulations for Army medical services / War Office.

Date:
1894
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Credit: Regulations for Army medical services / War Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    08 Section III. General Regulations. Medical board. signature and disposal of detailed medical history! Soldiers permanently unfit, and detained. retailed medical hi story te- accompany foreign invalids. Nominal return, excepting India. Cases of epilepsy. Officer will represent to the General Officer Commanding the expediency of the medical board being assembled at the station where the patient is under treatment. 618. The medical board (assembled by order of the General Officer Commanding) will record its opinion on the third page of the detailed medical history (Army Form B 179), and submit the proceedings for the approval of the Principal Medical Officer. 619. The Principal Medical Officer will sign the detailed medical history (Army Form B 179), and the medical report (Army Form B 248). The former docu- ment will be retained in his office as a record, and when the General Officer Commanding has approved of the invalid's discharge, the Principal Medical Officer will re- turn the latter document, together with the invalid's medical history sheet (Army Form B 178), to the medical officer in charge for transmission to the officer commanding the corps to which the soldier belongs. 620. Soldiers who are permanently unfit for service are to be brought forward for discharge in the usual manner. When their disability is of such a nature as to prevent their immediate removal from hospital, they ma}r be retained for further treatment at the discretion of the medical officer in charge, provided he has obtained the approval of the Principal Medical Officer, and men so detained in hospital after discharge will be subsisted as directed in the Allowance Regulations. 621. In the case of invalids sent home from stations abroad for change of air or discharge, the detailed medical histories, on Army Form B 179, and medical his- tory sheets will be handed over to the medical officer proceeding in charge, in order that he may be acquainted with the nature of the cases under his care, and also that he may continue, on the space assigned for that purpose, the history of the progress and the treatment of each invalid up to the date of his arrival at the invalid depot. The medical report, on Army Form B 248, will not be filled up until the men are being finally disposed of at home, but (except in the case of invalids from India) a nominal return, briefly recording their disabilities, will be made on Army Form B 172 (Embarkation Return of Invalids). This re- turn will be furnished in duplicate—one for the com- manding officer, and one to accompany the invalids to Netley. 622. Before a soldier is brought forward to be in\ alided for epilepsy, a certificate from a medical officer, stating that lie has actuaiiv seen the man in a true